Category: Computers
Another traditional game development competition has started, and it is ready to receive submissions. Hosted by Richard Bayliss’ The New Dimension (TND), the compo has bought many cool games for the C64 over the years, and with some clever tricks, the results go beyond the basic Shoot’em Up nature of the tool! The competition is already going, and the deadline…
Carlos Peris has released RedPill 0.85, a game development tool created using AmiBlitz and targeted people who want to build Amiga games but have little to none programming background. Although the author explains that RedPill is “more a toy to play with than a professional tool,” it has been responsible for releasing many cool Amiga games, and there are more…
Biscuits in Hell was released back in June 2020 by Playsoft/Paul Lay as an exclusive game for ABBUC members, as part of issue #141 of the ABBUC Magazine. Now the game is freely available to everybody via ABBUC public downloads (link at the end). The game was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum in 2017 and the premise is fairly…
2021 has barely started, but the MSX game developers out there have no time to rest. The MSXDev’21 has been announced and will run from January 1st through October 15th. Last year, the compo went back to its roots and decided to allow only pure MSX1 games to compete. The change was very successful, and nothing less than 21 new…
The damascene group Abyss Connection has started the new year with a new tool targeting the Commodore 64 scene. Ditheridoo is a multicolour bitmap editor for C64. It runs on 64-bit versions of Linux, macOS and Windows. The editor is open-source and written in Python and allows easy dithering, and in this first release offers checkerboard, x-line, y-line, light dither…
DoubleG has released his very first game for the C64. Rabbit Runner is an infinite runner game where you play an insatiable rabbit eating Farmer Wilson’s crop. The rabbit runs along three lanes and must eat the vegetables to keep his energy level high. Since Farmer Wilson’s is not very good at his job, the crop is full of bad…
Wow it’s been a long time since I spoke to Andy Johns, I just happened to have a quick browse over my Facebook, nothing too interesting going on until I got a DM from Andy with some fantastic News which I’ll get to in a second. You might be thinking to yourself, who is Andy Johns? Most Speccy die-hards will…
Xmas eve 2020. The turkey on the table and wine in the glass. All the gifts are wrapped and neatly placed under the tree. What else would we wish for after a tough year? A new VICE version, of course! VICE 3.5 has been released with a long list of changes that will please its users. As the main change,…
Ozmoo Release 5 is out. Ozmoo is a Z-code interpreter (a program to play text adventures which use Infocom’s game format). The first version of Ozmoo was released in December 2018. It was written to produce playable games for the Commodore 64. Now, with Release 5, support has been added for Commodore 128 and Commodore Plus/4. Games built for the…
Since I wasn’t a British kid in the 80s and never owned a ZX Spectrum until recently, iconic characters like Monty Mole, Miner Willy, or Dizzy don’t bring me any nostalgia as they do to many of you. I think this is a good thing because I can enjoy many of these games with fresh eyes and an open mind,…
